Chlamydospores are produced by many fungi and represent enlarged, thick-walled vegetative cells with varied forms and condensed cytoplasm that form within hyphae or at hyphal tips. Even the fungus-like oomycete plant pathogens Phytophthora cinnamomi and Phytophthora parasitica produce chlamydospores.

Chlamydospores are produced only by the two closely related species C. albicans and Candida dubliniensis, whose natural habitats are humans and warm-blooded animals, but not by other Candida species that are also found outside animal hosts.

Albicans reproduce without mating. Organisms that produce asexually or parasexually are diploid, which means they have two sets of chromosomes and thus can reproduce without a mate. Organisms that reproduce sexually are haploid, which means they have one set of chromosomes and need a mate to provide a second set.

The production of chlamydospores by C. albicans is most easily observed in slide cultures on rice agar; corn meal agar also gives good results with some strains. Some laboratories add Tween 80 (1%) to these media.

noun, plural: sporangiospores. The spore produced and contained within a sporangium. Supplement. Sporangiospores occur in angiospersms, gymnosperms, ferns, fern allies, bryophytes, algae, and fungi.

noun, plural: zoospores. An asexual spore with a flagellum used for locomotion but lacking a true cell wall. Supplement. Examples of organisms producing zoospores are some algae, fungi and protozoans.

Sporangiophore is a specialized branch having one or more sporangia. Sporangium is a unicellular or multicellular structure in which spores are produced as in fungi, algae, mosses and ferns.

Conidia are asexually produced spores that are borne externally to the cells that produce them. Sporangiospores are produced inside specialized cells called sporangia and remain enclosed in the cells until maturity.

A sporangiophore is a specialized structure that allows the fungi to reproduce asexually by producing spores. By dispersing the spores, the fungi start to expand and colonize a new environment.

The process of producing non-motile spores, called conidia, via mitotic asexual reproduction in higher fungi. They are produced by conversion of hyphal elements, or are borne on sporogenous cells on or within specialized structures termed conidiophores, and participate in dispersal of the fungus.

Basidiospores typically each contain one haploid nucleus that is the product of meiosis, and they are produced by specialized fungal cells called basidia. When basidiospores encounter a favorable substrate, they may germinate, typically by forming hyphae.

The basidiospores are wind-borne to the alternate host, species of susceptible Berberis and Mahonia, but seldom cause infection more than 180 to 270 m from the source. Most of the infections occur on the upper leaf surface, although infections on the berries, stems, and other plant surfaces do occur.

The basidia, which are the reproductive organs of these fungi, are often contained within the familiar mushroom, commonly seen in fields after rain, on the supermarket shelves, and growing on your lawn. The fruiting bodies of a basidiomycete form a ring in a meadow, commonly called “fairy ring” (Figure 1).

The fungal group basidiomycota is best known for the production of large fruitbodies such as the mushrooms, puffballs, brackets, etc. However, the group also contains some microscopic fungi, including the important rust fungi and smut fungi that parasitise plants (see Biotrophic parasites), and some yeasts.

The main difference between these two groups is in the way in which they produce their microscopic spores. In the Basidiomycetes, the spores are produced externally, on the end of specialised cells called basidia. In Ascomycetes, spores are produced internally, inside a sac called an ascus.

More specifically, Basidiomycota includes these groups: mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and the human pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus.

Unlike most fungi, basidiomycota reproduce sexually as opposed to asexually. Two different mating strains are required for the fusion of genetic material in the basidium which is followed by meiosis producing haploid basidiospores.

Ascospores are stained with Kinyoun stain and ascospore stain. When stained with Gram stain, ascospores are gram-negative while vegetative cells are gram-positive. The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is a single-celled haploid organism that reproduces asexually by mitosis and fission.

Ascospore is a sexual spore produced by fungi ascomycetes Basidiospore is a sexual spore produced by fungi basidiomycetes. Ascospores are produced inside a structure called ascus. Basidiospores are produced by basidia. Basidiospores are produced exogenously.